“….. Let me say one thing, first. I can guarantee you. I am NOT dangerous. Don’t make that assumption of me.”
“Just because I don’t want to cough up my entire life story to someone I JUST met, that doesn’t make me a threat. And I can’t fathom why that would make me less trustworthy, but…”
She sighs heavily.
“I… Know there’s some things you already know. That you’ve already seen. That I haven’t explained, and don’t really want to. That job of yours- Gods, how do I…?”
“There’s things you’ve- you’ll see, that… Don’t have your best interest in mind. I care a lot about Ace, but they’re meddling in really dangerous territory, and now you’re fully roped into it, too.”
“That ‘Donphan in the room’ in question? I don’t necessarily help them out of passion for the field- I do it because I owe them, and more importantly, because I don’t want them to get hurt. I have means of gathering the information they seek in safer ways than anything they could do. And, in the same way I’m worried for you- I don’t want them to see or be decived by something that would hurt them.”
“… Even though my means are… Less than normal, I’d… I’d rather skew a result a bit, if it meant potentially saving their life as they know it.”
“Again, I’m really sorry for being dishonest. I just thought… I didn’t want to make you distrust me. Though clearly, that really backfired on me. I’m just scared that you’ve already seen things out there that- that might make you…..”
“… More than anything, I really just want to be your friend. I hope you can believe me there.”
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